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Celebrity Pro-Am | Rick Glenn Interview
Rick Glenn sits down with celebrity pro-am players to discuss their experiences in various sports and hobbies. In this interview, Olympic athlete Rick Glenn shares his passion for wrestling and boxing, revealing that he's a lifelong fighter who never pursued an Olympic career. He also opens up about how disc golf became a new favorite hobby after meeting UFC champion Ben Askren while training in Milwaukee. Watch as Rick Glenn talks about the transition from wrestling to disc golf, and how it brought him closer to his community through the sport of disc golf. With a unique blend of humor and insight, Rick shares his story and invites viewers to give disc golf a try.
Pro golfer Rick Glenn shares his experience at the Celebrity Pro-Am, an exclusive disc golf event with sports stars.
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uh just do me a favor just uh take the little mic and put it up on your head i was saying this is really the best part of it is like all the celebrities know how oh yeah there's no hallows media stuff works so it's like pretty easy to just like hook it up but uh thanks uh just give me a check one two check one two uh yeah should be good all right cool awesome are you looking at you yeah okay okay cool all right um so you're an olympian too no that was a typo okay yeah i was joking jokingly told everyone well if i wouldn't went out for wrestling i would be olympian but no just have been fighting for a long time awesome that's yeah that's really boxing fighting yeah that's like the hardest thing i think so yeah it's tough because like i used to wrestle oh yeah i heard someone said you wrestled yeah and it's like i've never felt like i've never been more tired after like a two-minute wrestling oh yeah than like anything in my life yeah anyway um but yeah dudes let's talk some frisbee uh how long is all remember glenn how long you been how can frisbees i've been playing disc golf for a little while well i guess not as long as some of the pros but since 2011 so i moved up from iowa to milwaukee and trained at a gym that i met ben askren at and we um you know started shooting discs and playing as 2011 i lived here for six years and then moved to sacramento back home to iowa so it was a short drive coming back coming over here yeah and so is ben kind of like the the disc golf like peddler and and mma circles he's just trying to get yo just come on you're gonna get hooked just give me yeah one chance yeah ben's the disc golf funky hippie guy at the gym you know coming in with his dirty feet from not wearing shoes and you know flip-flops all the time but we'd hit the courses i mean it was like every day some weeks we'd do the courses around milwaukee and we kind of got a lot of fighters into disc golf and you know i really enjoy it...
